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Friday, February 01, 2013

This A+ list all movie actress was asked to appear at an event. For charity. A well established charity. The actress said she would be happy to but wanted $250K for her appearance plus another $50K worth of stuff and only promised to be there for 30 minutes. She said her time is valuable and that no matter the cause, her time was more important. The charity declined and then found five other actors and actresses who were huge hits at the event and did it all for free.

I hope this one is revealed. Considering celebs spend so much time promoting charitable causes and telling The Public they should be doing more, I expect that they put their money where their mouths are.

I can see this being Gwyneth Paltrow. Of course, if it said "performer" and not "actress" I'd say Barbra Streisand. I know Babs has acted in all movies, though. Hm. Screw it, that's my guess. Sounds like something she'd do.

I'm going against popular opinion, but I understand the actress: Perhaps she is fed up of going on promotions, publicity stunts and that things and she wants to have time for herself, away from fan who can be a pain in the ass (I live in a small town and I usually would like to be unknown and not to have to speak to everybody, so I am, in a very small way, as a famous person as anybody who lives in a little village and knows everyone there). Even if this were G.Paltrow, I wouldn't be harsh to her, someone needs personal space, and this can be the motive.

@YoMismo, I agree that celebs have the right not to do promotional appearances and should be able to have time to themselves. But this actress didn't just say, "I won't be able to attend, thanks for thinking of me." She demanded an obscene amount of money for 30 minutes of her time. That's why she looks bad.

There are only a handful of true A+ actresses at any one time. If you believe all the CDAN numbered BI's, every last one of them spends every waking moment being an abusive or unfaithful bitch. And that's not accounting for the time they actually spend working. It is literally impossible for all these BI's to be true.

I really can't see this as Gwyneth. Say what you will about her, she seems to be very into being proper and having manners. She may be all up in your face about how she's like that, but she backs it up.

I don't see this as being Angelina: she's probably the biggest bitch ever but she's made it clear she cares about her causes. Kind of like Mimi that is the biggest effing diva around but after that reveal about her doing all of those charitable and kind things and never wanting publicity for it, she'll pretty much always receive a pass from me!

I hope this is Gwyneth. I know we hate a LOT on the Piv (and justly so if even half of the stories are true), but I did love him on Entourage - I can't even think about Gwyneth without remembering an awesome line he had that went something like "anybody who puts Gwyneth's head in a box is okay with me", when speaking of, I think, the director of Se7en.

Maybe Meryl? I know, she's a goddess but an A+ goddess..Just making guesses..that is all. But the reason I said it was they got 5 people to cover that one and she is pretty important. Hope it's revealed whoever it is!

I get so angry when I hear about celebrities trying to take money to promote a charity. That goes against the entire idea of charity. "Sure, I'll help you raise money if you give me a bunch of money to do it!" ???!! That would be bad enough coming from your average person, but coming from a millionaire it's really messed up. Thank goodness the charity declined. I've heard of charities that actually bow to these idiots' demands and pay them to show up.

I wouldn't believe this Angelina-say what you want about her as a person but charity-wise she is very generous and she has given much of her own money to charity. I would also count out Drew Barrymore because she's been known to donate her own $$$ (although she might not be A+, but she has A+ name recognition maybe? The Barrymores are very famous.)

Wouldn't be surprised at all to find this is either Julia Roberts or Goop. Julia is known to be cheap as hell and will argue with salespeople to try and get a discount when she shops; Goop is spoiled and has no clue about the value of money and I could see her having the attitude of, "Oh my God, it's only $250 thousand, big deal, that's, like, not even enough for a house, who cares?"

That's how charities make a lotta money by presenting (hiring) celebs an humanitarian award for some charity banquet and charging X amount dollars a ticket for those who want to attend or have a meet n' greet with the celeb afterwards.

If this is true, I wonder how often and how much celebs actually do get paid to do these charity gigs? And trying to play devil's advocate here, at least for women, they have to buy (or get loaned) a new dress for each gig, plus make up and hair people etc. So I guess it does cost them money, which can add up if they go to each and every charity event they are asked to. I can see getting tired of it and just expecting to damn well get paid to do it.

Hmm, February is women's heart health month. There are a lot of "red dress" events this month. I'm going to go with Reece. She has a contract with Avon, so she might want to demand money to appear at a different charity event (Avon sponsors breast cancer events which usually take place in October).

Hmm when Tara mentioned the possibility of the 5 celebrities being cast members, I immediately thought of Mad Men. Seems like the cast does a lot of charity events. They hosted the UCLA Medical Center's Rape Treatment Center http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204226204576601112582344604.html, and John Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt do a lot with St. Jude.(Speaking of Westfeldt, if you click thru to the article, check out the picture of her, it's the second image in the article. WTF has she dome to her face? :-( )

It has to be someone who is insecure about their place in Hollywood's echelon. People like Jolie, for all her weird faults could care less about that, she does care about charitable causes. The person in this blind was making one of those 'green M&M's only in my dressing room' type of demands to prove their star power. Glad they got called on it.

libby, agree that if it's true, Julia would be a good guess. I wish somebody would investigate and write about some of the charitable foundations that actors, other famous folk start in their own names. A lot are bogus.

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